Ph.D. student David Gonzalez-Rodriguez is recipient of the 2008 School of Engineering Graduate Student Extraordinary Teaching and Mentoring Award, Dean Subra Suresh announced last week.  Gonzalez-Rodriguez also won the CEE Maseeh Award for excellence as a teaching assistant in 2007. Department head Professor Patrick Jaillet said that the Maseeh Award faculty nominations for Gonzalez-Rodriguez were “simply exceptional and represent endorsement of the highest level.” Jaillet said that Gonzalez-Rodriguez not only received extraordinarily high praise as an undergraduate Teaching Assistant, but also as a mentor of fellow graduate students. Read more.